I once ran across a brooch like this on a very soft unassuming tee-shirt at Portabello Road Market in London. That particular one also had some draped strands of small faux pearls and chain, to give it a little “edge” … Read More ...
October Beading Workshop: Metalliferous
The Bead Room at Metalliferous will be hosting the beading workshop Not Just Leather. This workshop will be taught be Bert and Dana Freed of The Well Done Experience and will be held on the 8th of October from … Read More ...
Braiding Tutorials
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Check out these two posts by Beading Gem’s Journal (always and excellent source for tutorials and info) on braiding techniques. The first covers finger loop braiding and the second covers kumihimo style braided pieces. Both posts contain a … Read More ...
New Class Schedule: 92nd St Y
The new class schedule is out for the classes at the Jewelry Center in the 92nd Street Y in NYC. As always, they have an excellent selection of classes, workshops and even tours.
You can take classes in basic metal … Read More ...
10 Metal Clay Projects: eBook
Interview is selling an ebook, 10 Metal Clay Jewelry Projects
by Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, You can buy it and download it from here.
This ebook is part of their “Best of” series and includes 10 projects by different designers … Read More ...
Tutorial: Zipper Earrings
Reader Chelsey Carter Mona is the jeweler behind SilverBug Studio Jewelry at Etsy. She is also a fairly new blogger.
She plans to post tutorials twice a week. Check out this post for the first of these planned tutorials. This … Read More ...
Beading Demos
If you haven’t already been to Metalliferous in NYC, it is a must visit for jewelry makers.
The store is a treasure trove of jewelry making supplies from tool to materials. Located in the Diamond District, I always feel especially … Read More ...
Update: Seed Bead Fusion
Author and Jeweler Rachel Nelson-Smith responded to my past post about her book Seed Bead Fusion, to let readers know that if they are interested in any of the specific projects in her new book, they can also visit … Read More ...
Instructions: DNA Ribbon
I love this elegant “DNA Ribbon” necklace by Catharina Thomas. It is interesting to see seed beads used in a way that makes their design reminiscent of metal work. You can often find similar designs in gold or silver, … Read More ...
How-To: Making Coils
Jean Campbell, contributing editor for Beading Daily, wrote today about making coils with a handy new, and simple, tool.
I have used a similar tool for making jumprings, but hadn’t seem this “coiler” before, nor thought of using coils as … Read More ...
Pistachio Flower
Here is an excellent idea for using a material which is not commonly used in jewelry! Reloved Designs posted this image, and other along with a commentary on the process on Craftster.org.
I love the dramatic look of these brooches … Read More ...
Tutorial: Crimping and loops
[youtube RwY-qWqol8c] Here is an excellent tutorial on crimping which was featured on Ornamentea. If they have a great archived section of tutorials and how tos as well. If you follow this link you will with the above tutorial … Read More ...
Inspiration: Summer night’s dream
Bounty_gg submitted this work to the CraftGossip Flick pool.
I love the fluid nature for the design and the rich and deep color palate. I would love to know more about the technique … Read More ...
Book Review: teach Yourself Visually:Beadwork
Chris Franchetti Michaels has published a new book Teach Yourself Visually: Beadwork
This is a very thorough book on off-loom techniques in beading.
Each chapter covers a specific stitch and includes tons of photographs and diagrams to help you learn … Read More ...
Green Jewelry Symposium and Studio Techniques
Jeweler Christine Dhein will be at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane Australia from the 13-15th of November, as a guest speaker on Green Jewelry and running a workshop on green studio techniques.
The piece pictured here is made … Read More ...